Year 2 - Chaffinch

Seaside visitor

Year 2 had a history workshop led by Taunton Museum. They investigated old seaside objects, dressed up in old fashioned clothes and created their own Punch and Judy stick puppets. It was a great end to our history unit 'At the seaside'.

 

Diversity Day July 2026

We found out a lot about Ukraine.

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. People there speak Ukrainian and we enjoyed trying out some words to say hello, goodbye, please and thank you. The capital city is Kyiv. People who live there like to eat a soup made from beetroot called Borscht. We were very lucky to be able to try another national dish, varenyky. 

We learnt a dance called the Hopak and heard well known stories which are told in Ukraine. We tried on the national dress, too. This is called a vyshyanka (an embroidered shirt) and a pretty flower crown called a vinok.

We found out that the national flower for Ukraine is the sunflower, so we worked hard to draw our own using a pencil. When we’d done that, we used paint to carefully add colour.

We loved the Motanka dolls and made our own using serviettes. These are symbols of Ukrainian culture.

Health & Sports Week June 2026

As part of our Health and Sports week we were lucky to be part of a dance workshop which we enjoyed. It was on the theme of Alice in Wonderland. We worked hard to act out and move to music to depict a part of the story. We developed characters and put together a dance sequence to music with the help of our visitor, Ruby.

Health & Sports Week June 2026

Chaffinch Class have had a great week of activities celebrating sports and health. They have danced, played tennis and ran a mini marathon. They have had lessons on road safety, sun safety and water safety. It's been a busy but fun week!

Sports Day June 2026

Thanks for everyone who came to support the children during their sports day. It was a hot one! Well done to all the children for taking part.

Character descriptions

The children have enjoyed writing character descriptions after creating their own characters based on the book The Pirates Next Door by Jonny Duddle.

They have worked together to generate adjective lists and thought about what their character looks like, what they are wearing, what their personality is like and what they like to do. They challenged themselves to use interesting vocabulary – why use the word ‘nice’ when you can say ‘delightful’?

Easter Parade

The children had a wonderful afternoon parading their Easter accessories. It was lovely to be out in the sunshine! Thank you everyone for all your support this half term. 

Trip to Bristol Zoo

Year 2 had a lovely day visiting Bristol Zoo. After learning all about meerkats we got to see them for real. They were running around and keeping watch for danger! We took part in an activity with Ben discussing all types of animals and even helped solve a crime (the penguin did it!) The children had a great time with their friends at the zoo. 

 

DT Unit Puppets - February 2026

Our unit in DT this half term was making puppets. After looking at different types of puppets and practising our sewing skills, the children designed their own hand puppet. They used the felt to shape their puppet and for the decoration. The children used either a running or over stitch (and sometimes both!)

 

Parents Craft Afternoon December 2025

It was great to have some of our parents in school to work with us making a calendar for the new year. We used the colour mixing skills we have learnt in our art lessons (see below) to create a colourful background. Then we decorated the numbers 2, 0, 2 and 6 to show the year. We used different media so they are all interesting to look at. We are looking forward to taking them home and displaying them next year.

 

Wells Cathedral December 2025

 

 We have had a wonderful day at Wells Cathedral. The Christmas trees looked beautiful and we learned a lot about the building. Did you know it was built 900 years ago? We looked at the fabulous stained glass windows. Our guide told us that some people couldn't read or write all that time ago so stories from The Bible were told in pictures in the stained glass. She also told us that some soldiers came, a long time ago, and broke the windows. The glass broke and instead of throwing it away the windows were made again but not in the right order. These are called the 'jigsaw windows'.

We enjoyed looking around the cathedral and saw stone carvings all around, even on the ceiling! We were lucky enough to watch the special clock chime at 12.00. There are model jousters that twirl around the top and the clock even tells you what the moon will look like in the sky. It is one of the oldest working clocks in the world!

There was a lovely nativity in the cathedral. We looked carefully to spot all the characters in the story. We also saw them in the stained glass windows.

We did some sketches of the interesting things we saw.

We made a badge with the nativity story on it and also made stained glass windows of our own.

Art lesson 3.10.25

We have had some fabulous art lessons experimenting with paint this term. We've built on our knowledge from Year 1 and discussed colour mixing and shading. The children then used these skills to create a sunset scene. We will be drawing over the top of this and hope the end results will be ready to show during the school carnival procession! 

Carymoor visit 08.10.25

Today we had an exciting visitor in school. Gary came from Carymoor Recycling Centre to talk to us about recycling our waste. He told us about how to recycle different materials and where to put them. He told us where they are taken and what happens next. He talked about the '3 Rs' reuse, recycle and reduce.

In class we practised and met burpy bin! Gary even had a song for us to learn.

It was great fun and we learnt a lot!

Science and computing with Year 4 07.10.25

The children from Year 4 helped the children from Year 2 to log on and use j2edata Branch to create branch databases to sort and group animals according to their characteristics.